Gilbert Karoline

Karoline Gilbert is an Assistant Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute. She deduces the detailed formation history of individual galaxies by studying their resolved stellar populations. Karoline obtained her PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and was a Hubble Fellow at the University of Washington before joining the JWST/NIRSpec team at STScI in the fall of 2013.

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This Month’s Featured Author

Dr. Brian Williams received his B.S. from Florida State University in 2004 and his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in 2010. He was a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for three years, after which he worked as a research scientist at NASA GSFC with Universities Space Research Association. He arrived at STScI in February of 2017, and is currently a Support Scientist in the Science Mission Office. His research interests include supernovae and supernova remnants, shock physics and particle acceleration, and dust in the interstellar medium.